Our appointment is Monday!

We have our first appointment with Catholic Family Services on Monday, the 1st of October. I am very excited about this appointment, though, it really is just an informational appointment for all of us, the adoption specialist included. She is going to talk to us and find out what we want out of adoption and we can talk to her and find out how she can help us with our adoption.

She will send us home with an application. We will have to formally apply to the program and then we can begin our homestudy process. (I hope!) As you can tell, I am very ready to get this process moving. I have never felt more Christ-driven in my life. I feel like I have a purpose right now. All I can think about is this adoption. I am even dreaming about it at night.

I have to give my appreciation to my sweet husband right now, too. I feel like he is taking a leap of faith with me. He isn't as "gung-ho" about adopting as I am, though, I think he feels like it is right for our family. In fact, I am sure he feels like it is right for our family, or else, he wouldn't have agreed to move forward with it. I want to thank him for his trust in me. He has always trusted me that if I said, "I feel like we should do this", whatever it may be, he allows us to move forward with it. He trusts my intuition and my heart for God.

I do feel like God has called me to do this, even a long time ago. I have always wondered exactly why God put me on this earth and I have always thought that it was to save children and animals. Every stray animal always finds its' way to my doorstep somehow and I always try to find a way to find it a home or I keep it myself until I have it a home. (This drives my husband and my family crazy, by the way.) But, it has always been an urge that I can't control, so I feel that it comes from God sometimes.

Now, I feel this urge with wanting to adopt a child. It seems like everywhere I go and everything I watch is about adoption right now, whether I know it is going to be or not. Last weekend, there were three movies on Lifetime about adopting and then last night, Without A Trace was about adoption. I told Josh as we went to bed that I really felt led that we were doing the right thing. I have had it affirmed to me almost every single day. Just this past Tuesday, on the front page of the Athens paper, was a family married for 23 years who just adopted a baby girl. Their story was amazing. I long for the day when we can share our complete story and give all the glory to God for it.

Well... wish us well on Monday. I am sure I will post about it on Tuesday. Pray for us through this journey that we will listen to God and ask Him to guide us. Pray that we will find a way to finance this adoption. This has been something that I have just felt like God is going to take care of for us, so I am not at all worried. I really do not feel any real worry right now at all about this entire situation. I have learned just recently that God is in control and He will take care of me and my family no matter what. We just have to wait on Him, which is the hardest part.

I found a quote today that I want to share with you all, whoever is reading this blog, as I close this post out.

"Adopting a child won't change the world; but for that child, the world will change."

I don't know who said that originally, but I love it!

New to blogging

I guess I am going to try this blogging thing. I have been reading so many others' blogs and have been wondering if I can do it. I am going to try. I love reading about others' lives and hope that mine will be as interesting, though I feel like it will not be. I don't know if I am as talented a writer as some of yours I have read.

I am not sure how to upload a pic to my profile. I will have to try to figure all of this out. I have a myspace page to keep up with friends from high school and college. This doesn't seem as easy to arrange. I hope I can figure it out.

I will try to post fun things to read. Hope you all enjoy.